Talking about tutorials, I recommend following this series first before moving onto advanced walkthroughs that are like 20 mins long on YouTube: learn.derivative.ca/courses/100-.... It will save you guys so much time and energy, and give you guys ideas of what to make with TD!

The easiest way to break into it is to learn the software with other people. For example if I struggle with a tutorial, my friend (same level as me) would do the tutorial together and we help diagnose each other's problems.

I use it most often for visual art 😄 It's normal that people don't really got around to using it because they don't have a specific use case right away. I learned TouchDesigner in school, so I didn't get lost as I have assignments that help me valorise each different part of the software

Most importantly, the Chinese names are homophonous with "Zohran Kwame" when pronounced in both Cantonese (the spoken language used by first-wave Chinese immigrants from the South) and Mandarin (the spoken language used by new-wave Chinese immigrants from the North).

What an absolute masterstroke.

and finally i want to leave this link here as it's a really nice summary of what people usually make with touchdesigner 😄

this one is a tutorial on how to touchdesigner + arduino distance sensor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Q_...

this video showcases touchdesigner + online weather API data, a bit advanced but really cool: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A0H...

for example, you can plug arduino's sensors into touchdesigner data operators. these sensors then control a visual or interactive output.

there are so so many sensors you can play with: temperature, humidity, distance, light, RPM, color, water level (like this video below), etc.

it is quite exactly the tool that you described, the only inconvenience is that it doesn't support packaging as a standalone executable, for other people to download and use.

i strongly suggest exploring it anyway, touchdesigner is super fun and powerful:

Pay attention to the ATProto community in addition to Bluesky the platform. @leaflet.pub, @tangled.org, @stream.place, @germnetwork.com are doing some amazing stuff with the protocol, and the real vision is starting to come to life.

i assume you've used (or heard of) touchdesigner, i was just wondering why it wouldn't fit what you just described

when i wrote "destroy AI" i wasn't saying everything should be destroyed - i was saying the absence of destruction as an option creates a lopsided landscape to our imagination. people can just create and deploy systems, but we can't remove those systems? do you see how that is inescapably untenable?

besides Global South cheap labor exploitation, these AI systems construct their users everywhere as subjects of surveillance: productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-ai-age...

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creative work requires a soul, which is something that isleofany lacks. the studio is a just propaganda machine.

ChatGPT and other AI systems consume more electricity than entire cities and it will only get worse. even if you want to opt out of AI catastrophe, your electricity bills won't, and your liveable climate won't.

limited.systems/articles/the...

- NYT editors are well-known zionists with deep ties to the Israel apartheid state.
- the father of Zionism literally looks over them in their board room.
- isleofany does the whitewashing at the moment ppl boycott NYT over its reporting

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